blettes
\blɛt\
The verdict
“blettes” is uncommon French (frequency #88,390 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,390
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de blette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blettes · blettes · French
blettes · rank #88,390 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,390
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bleau
Nearest frequency peer: Bleau (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « blettes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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bikes
11,615 corpus weight
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bischoff
11,614 corpus weight
- Bleau
Bleau
11,612 corpus weight
- blettes
blettes
11,611 corpus weight
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blinis
11,610 corpus weight
- bobinage
bobinage
11,609 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blettes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blettes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blettes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blettes is uncommon French at frequency #88,390 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de blette.".
blettes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is blettes, spelled B-L-E-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de blette.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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